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breasted Grosbeak is described as having its under wing coverts and a 

 suffusion on its throat geranium pink, otherwise normal in plumage. 



The nomenclature of the latest authorities, such as Ridgway, Sharpe and 

 the A. O. U. Committee, is used and the many changes recently shown to 

 be necessary are adopted. Unfortunately, however, seven or eight slight 

 errors, such as misspellings and wrong gender endings, have crept in. 



A map giving the points at which collections were made serves as the" 

 frontispiece. Two other maps show the ranges of the races of Calocitta 

 formosa and Planesticus tristis, and a half-tone illustrates the breast and 

 trachea of the male Ortalis vetula plumbeiceps. 



The value of the list is enhanced by many careful notes by the author 

 on the coloring of the changeable portions of the birds collected, such as 

 iris, bill, feet and naked skin. There are also frequent remarks on moult 

 and on the habits of the birds observed. 



Mr. Dearborn's paper is a painstaking piece of work and adds much of 

 interest and value to our knowledge of Guatemalan birds. — W. De W. M. 



Shaw's • The China or Denny Pheasant in Oregon.' ' — The Chinese or 

 Denny Pheasant {Phasianus torquatus) was introduced into Oregon by 

 the late Judge O. N. Denny, at one time Consul-General to Shanghai, "after 

 whom the legislature of Oregon has since called the bird the Denny Pheas- 

 ant." The story of its successful introduction and subsequent increase 

 and dispersion is here told in considerable detail, but, strangely, exact 

 dates are omitted. From the context, its introduction was apparently 

 made in the early 'SO's. The first shipment was unsuccessful, few of the 

 seventy birds in the consigmnent reaching their destination alive, and 

 these soon died from injuries received in transit. The following year a 

 shipment of thirty birds was made, all but four of which reached Portland 

 alive and in good health, and a few days later w-ere turned out on the large 

 ranch of Judge Denny's brother, John Denny, in Linn County, in the 

 Willamette Valley. "About two years later," Judge Denny made another 

 shipment of ninety birds, "chiefly pheasants and partridges. . . .in which 

 the ring-necked was not a predominating factor." Those now sent were 

 largely "silver and copper pheasants," which were transferred to a club 

 and turned loose on Protection Island, in the Colimtibia River, and "many 

 flocks of sih-er pheasants now west of the Cascades trace their ancestry to 

 this island in the Columbia." 



This account, less explicit as to dates than is desirable, is followed by an 

 infonnal notice of the native grouse of the Northwest, and of the habits 



1 The China or Denny Pheasant in Oregon | with notes on the | Native Grouse 

 of the Pacific Northwest | Written and ilhistrated | by | William T. Shaw, B. Agr., 

 M. S. I Assistant Professor of Zoology and Curator of the Museum, State College of 

 Washington | [seal] Philadelphia & London | J. B. Lippincott Company | 1908 — 

 Oblong, 6i X 9}, pp. 24, pll. 14, and colored frontispiece; text and plates on heavy 

 plate paper. Price, . 11.50. 



